weheartpaulsimon:

Norman Strassner sent this to Paul Simon on Facebook with this story:

Paul Simon was my summer camp junior counselor back in 1957, and I came across this photo I’ve had all these many years. This was taken at Camp Washington Lodge on Long Island. I could tell a few stories, but they would be embarrassing for the both of us! Suffice it to say that Paul was a great junior counselor who went out of his way to make sure that we were all safe and happy campers.

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He’s a very unusual guy … he always was, even when he was ten. The first time I really met him, he was in this candy store which we used to go to after we would get out of school — and he was this kid and he was shaking boxes of Good & Plenty. And then finally — I was watching him because I was going in to buy my Captain Marvel comic, and he was shaking these boxes of Good & Plenty and finally, the owner of the store kicked him out. Said he had to get out. And I said to the guy, ‘Why did you kick him out?’ And he said, ‘He comes in here all the time, and he shakes these boxes to see which has the most Good & Plenty and that’s the one he buys.’ You know?

thearenamaster:

Sound Of Silence Photoshoot - 1966

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“You know, when the turkey concept was first brought up, I said there’s a very good chance I’m gonna end up looking stupid if I come out wearing it. I mean, everyone said, ‘Oh, it’s Thanksgiving, go ahead.’” 

Happy Thanksgiving!

never 4get

The songwriters who tell us what they are thinking and feeling give us all a way of knowing what our generation thinks. It’s very important that they keep saying it; it’s not very important that it should be in the charts.

Happy 71st Birthday!

trikadekaphile:

At the premiere of The Empire Strikes Back.

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It was an incredible adventure. Just to travel, get on a plane, go to a town I’d never been to. At the beginning, we were thrilled to stay in a Holiday Inn: ‘Oh, great! They have a vibrating bed!’ The kids would invite us to their parties. We were only a couple of years older than they were. Artie sometimes hitchhiked from one gig to another.